The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-12
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE

at Albany for Assaulting a Passen-
ger-A Murder in Brooks County
A Boy Who Took a Satchei by "Mis-
take" Let OF Light by Judge.
GEORGIA
Brick laying ON Quitman's new town hall
will soon commence.
Superior Court will convene in Coving-
ton on Monday, Sept. 10.
Newman is the only post Office of that
name in the United States.
The amount of taxable property given in
at Brentwood this year is over SIS, GOO
1t is calculated that half the cotton crop
is already picked out in Thomas county
There are fifty men in Newman and
vicinity reputed to be worth over $4,000
each.
There is not a Chinaman in Columbus.
Lee Chez, the last one there, has gone to
New York.
The Rome Brick Company is now making
$4,000 brick per day, and is unable to keep
up with its orders.
The Coweta Fertilizer Company have
manufactured and sold this season over
1000 tons of guano.
A move is on foot to erect a large brick
building in Smithville, with hall above
and four stores below.
At Rome the rivers are now lower than
they have been for several years. They are
now nine inches above dead low water.
About forty women and children arrived
in Rome, Friday, and in the afternoon were
taken to Tion Factory, where they will
work
At Rome the drawings and moles for the
new boat to ply the Oostanaula river are
about finished, and carpenters will probably
he r,t1t 10 xEork on IL
The Brunswick Rifienien have determined
to visit Atlanta during the exposition and
greet Mr.. Cleveland They will take part
in the military display of that occasion.
John P. Brooks, of Quitman, killed eleven
rattlesnakes on his place adjoining town
last week Some of them were very large
He says he thinks he left several hundred
big ones.
At Knoxville the jury of inquest, by their
verdict, have pronounced the killing of the
negro Louis Futrell murder The man who
killed him left Immediately afterward and
has not been arrested.
A tailor who was at Alapaha recently cut
a man a pants pattern. When the pants
were made he found that he could button
them around his neck, and still have several
hens to spare on the legs.
A meeting of the citizens of Adel will be
held Saturday for the purpose of ascertain
ling the most suitable place for depot and
the transaction of other business per-
tanning to the best interests of the place.
Rev. j. A Scarboro has retired from the
editorship of the Excelsior Pioneer and
Eagle, in order to devote more time to the
ministry and the Baptist Reporter He is
succeeded by Fl. A. Smith and George E.
Clarke.
A contract has been closed for the erec-
tion of four new buildings at Woodbury.,
near the railroad, and in the business por-
ton of the town. The town is building up
steadily and many handsome edifices dot its
limits
The Garmany and Baker land case,
which involves a large tract of land in
Wilmington, in Valdosta, last week. The
Colonel was appointed by Judge Hansell to
hear the case. No decision has yet been
reached.
Zack Mooney, assistants engineer at the
water works engine house, at Rome, met
with painful accident Friday He was
wiping his engine off with a piece OF waste
when his right hand was caught in some
machinery, tearing off his forefnger, badly
mashing the second and bruising, consider
ably, the thumb. Il
The arbitration between the railroad com
pany and those claiming damages for the
road crossing their land, near Adel, was set
tied last Saturday. The amounts given the
claimants, as far as heard from, were as
follows: Peter Rentz, S75; ST Parrish, 500;
G. E. Williams, $3.50. l. A. Williams, an
other claimant, got nothing.
Dave Aubrey, of Americas, says that he
found live chicken on his place last
week that had foot on each side near the
wing. 1t had no thigh, no leg, but a foot
When the little fellow would try to walk it
would get on one foot, paw the air on top
with the other foot, and peep. peep" in
note that was doleful to hear 1t lived two
days and half, and died for want of exer-
else
Mack Norman, a negro. working at the
saw mill of Blackshear & Mason, located
about one and one-half miles from Dublin.
dropped dead on Tuesday evening last. He
had been complaining for several days be-
fore his death, but no one thought that he
was seriously ill. He went TO his work at
the usual hour, and in short time, while
rolling some lumber away from the saw,
those near him saw him open his mouth
bend forward, then fall prone upon the
earth, dying instantly without speaking a
word.
Several little negroes living on the plan
tation of Mrs Slappy, near the Plains of
Dura. in Sumter county, narrowly escaped
being cremated Thursday night. Their
parents had gone to church, and in accord
ance with the time-honored custom of the
race locked the little ones up in the house.
During their absence kerosene lamp ex-
ploded, and the house was quickly wrapped
in flames. and it was only through the ex-
ertions of the neighbors that the covey of
young children were saved from a horrible
death.
Two negro women, Maria Cobb and Fan
ME Deres, on the place of A. H. Simmons,
in Lee county, got into quarrel about some
grapes, and determined TO fight it out They
armed themselves with ugly knives and
went into a gladiatorial contest that would
have done credit to old veterans. They
slashed and cut, and jumped around, swear
ing and kicking terribly. They are both
badly cut, but 1t is said Maria Cobb is in a
bad fix. She has her throat cut, her breast
hacked up, and looks as if she had gone
through a sausage grinder. The other
woman is also badly cut, but not so much
as the other.
At Griffin the work Of grading that por-
ton OF Broadway street crossed by New
Orleans was commenced Friday This inn
provement was made necessary by the
building Of the "Y +" or connecting link be-
tween the Georgia Midland and Gulf and
Central roads Broadway, from what is
known as the rock steps, will be leveed TO
the Episcopal hill, while the hill leading TO
the market house will be leveled as much as
practicable. When this work is completed
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